Bunny Bunny

Written, Directed, and Choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly. 

About the Show

Bunny Bunny is an existentialist play. Like humans, bunny rabbits experience loneliness, desire, -trauma-, and fear. In this fantasy, which isn’t not the real world no-Bun is safe. In this devised dance theater production, Bunny Bunny gives you nothing and everything you need to survive and/or make sense of it. 

The Cast

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About the Director

Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer, director, and the artistic director of the feath3r theory–a Brooklyn-based dance-theatre-media company that he founded in 2009. Over the past decade he has created 16 evening-length works with the feath3r theory to critical acclaim, most recently WEDNESDAY (New York Live Arts), the UGLY trilogoy (Bushwick Starr, New York Live Arts, and ImPulsTanz), and The Kill One Race – part documentary, part theatre, part reality TV game show (filmed at Playwrights Horizon). 

Kelly choreographed the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre, premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizon). He was hailed by The New York Times as the choreographer who “can make your play move” for his extensive work Off-Broadway credits include: Macbeth In Stride (American Repertory Theater), We’re Gonna Die (Second Stage Theater – his directorial debut), On Sugarland (New York Theater Workshop), SUFFS (The Public Theater), and Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse). Frequent collaborators include Lileana Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sarah Benson, and Michael R. Jackson. Other theatre credits include choreography for Skittles Commercial: The Musical (Town Hall), The Chronicles of Cardigan and Khente (Soho Rep), Everyday Afroplay (JACK), GURLS (Princeton University, Yale Repertory Theatre), Electric Lucifer (The Kitchen), The House That Will Not Stand (New York Theatre Workshop), Fireflies (Atlantic Theatre Company), If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons), The Good Swimmer (BAM), Faust (Opera Omaha), and The Listeners (Oslo Opera). 

He has received dozens of awards, fellowships and honors including a Mellon Foundation grant (2021), an Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle Award honor for choreography for A Strange Loop (2020), an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019-2021), a Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts (2019–2020), a National 

Dance Project Production Grant (2019–2021), a New York Dance Performance Bessie Award (2009), a Creative Capital Award (2019), three Princess Grace Awards (2017-2019), a National Dance Project Production Grant (2019), a Breakout Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (2018), Dance Magazine’s inaugural Harkness Promise Award (2018), a Creator-in-Residence at Kickstarter (2018), and a Choreography Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU (2017), a Bessie Schonberg Fellowship at The Yard (2017), the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography (2016), an ImPulsTanz Festival DanceWEB Scholarship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship (2016). He’s been nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards (2019, 2020), a Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography, and was a finalist for the 2019 SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award for outstanding choreography of A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons and winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; 2021 winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical) and Fairview (Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). He was featured on the cover of the February 2020 issue of Dance Magazine. 

Kelly has performed with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, David Dorfman Dance, Kyle Abraham|Abraham.In.Motion, and zoe | juniper. He has also managed a number of dance companies: Race Dance, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, zoe | juniper, and Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group.

Kelly has held teaching positions at universities nationwide, including Yale, Princeton, The Juilliard School, and New York University, among others. He is the Quinn Martin directing fellow at the University of California San Diego. 

He was born in Fort Hood, Texas and holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College.